Death and the Ravin’

April 8, 2017

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   This concert has me stumped. My fingers have been poised on the keyboard for ages now, stuck like a sprinter with […]

Still Oblique to the Pathétique

March 30, 2017

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   A confession: sometimes, when I am moping along a footpath through an oncoming rush of rage-inducing text-walkers, the gaudy jackets of […]

No parking: A Play On experience

December 9, 2016

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   Play On v_4 Collingwood Underground Carpark, November 25   I couldn’t see the cobwebs in the dark. Even much of the […]

Don’t leave me alone

November 25, 2016

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   It had been a rough week, if you remember. On the Monday, Leonard Cohen added his name to 2016’s long list […]

O Bratsche, Where Art Thou?

October 1, 2016

BY CAMPBELL BANKS    Let them eat cake. And drink coffee. And let it be free, too. This will help entice them to come to […]

The Sound of One Penny Dropping

September 21, 2016

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   The eyes gave him away. They’re hidden on the back wall of the hall, in amongst the cartographic wood panelling of […]

Nostalgia Ascending

September 5, 2016

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   Lark Ascending Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Richard Tognetti Hamer Hall, 20 August   After seeing the program for this Melbourne Symphony […]

Hey you, dishwasher heart

July 23, 2016

BY CAMPBELL BANKS   At the back of a stage dense with seated bodies, a man in fancy dress wanders sheepishly, paper in hand. He […]

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